Alan Barrett
My friend Alan Barrett died from cancer this week. I’ve only known him a couple years – but I knew he was mad cool when he ordered a gin and tonic at the Christmas party…that’s my drink! A fellow east coaster and awesome at bar music trivia, he carried the classic rock/punk questions like a champ! I can’t imagine telling my daughter I’m not going to be around to see her grow up, yet Alan had two daughters he thought the world of. I didn’t get to say goodbye. He was my friend and I wanted him to win this thing, we had more bocce ball to play,...
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At first glance, I pegged Adobe’s AIR product as gimmicky and left it at that. Recently a client asked for a tool that could convert some data from CSV format to a XML format. Easy enough. “What Platform” I asked assuming Windows. “Well – some of my clients have Macs” my client replied. Sounds like a Job for Flash! Only the app needed to run off the various clients desktops and once I saw the size of some of these files…better they be processed over the clients several machines than one server. I took a second look at Adobe AIR – and I am...
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